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Posted: April 28 2006 at 8:57am | IP Logged Quote jdostalik
Can any of you nature lovers recommend specific books by this author? Alice, I believe you mentioned him in passing in your Cottage Garden blog recently? Which books by him has your family enjoyed?
He looks like a fascinating man!

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Posted: April 28 2006 at 9:29am | IP Logged Quote MacBeth
His Amateur Naturalist is outstanding. My Family and Other Animals is a good EDITED read aloud, as are some of his other books. He was an atheist. His bother Lawrence was the author of Pope Joan (definitely not a recommended read ).

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Posted: April 28 2006 at 3:47pm | IP Logged Quote alicegunther
We own the Amateur Naturalist (OOP), and I enjoy looking through it for ideas on how to truly study a certain area. I also really like his account of the ways he studied nature as a young boy living on a Greek island. He, unfortunately, has an atheistic philosophy, so it is not a book I would let the children read, beyond perusing the excellent pictures and captions.

Karen Edmisten recently had a review of a movie about his life at her blog. Karen, do you think you could post the permalink to that piece?

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Posted: April 28 2006 at 3:56pm | IP Logged Quote jdostalik
Thanks, Alice and MacBeth for your comments. I guess I might try and find a copy of his Amateur Naturalist for me. I'm sorry to hear that he was an atheist, though he isn't anymore, huh?   

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Posted: April 19 2012 at 11:55am | IP Logged Quote JennGM
Bumping this. Jenny mentioned this article at First Things which recommends My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell.

I agree with Macbeth that some editing needs to be done as a read-aloud, or wait until your child is older. But it is so delightful on how he recounts his ways of observing nature. Talk about self-education -- delightful! So full of humor, too.

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Posted: April 19 2012 at 12:41pm | IP Logged Quote Mackfam
We have long been fans of Amateur Naturalist. In fact, I used it as a springboard for a Middle School Natural History course and it was wonderful, really inspiring a love and better understanding of Natural History in all of us! This is a book that stays out all the time at our house.

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